🎫 Everything the night needs
All of this is part of the Fundraising & Development app, included in both AIONP Essentials and AIONP Complete.
Tickets and tables
- Ticket types that admit several guests, such as a couple's ticket
- Table packages for sponsors and families
- Invitations by email, and an event page to share
- Copy last year's event instead of starting over
- "Sold by" links for your ticket sellers, with a leaderboard
Seating and the room
- Seat guests at tables and print the seating list
- Place cards and name badges on Avery 5395 sheets
- Edit a guest's ticket or move it to someone else
- Guests can save their ticket as a picture on their phone
Check-in and the door
- Check guests in from the roster as they arrive
- Check-in keeps working with no signal, and syncs when it returns
- Sell tickets at the door by card
- Everyone who came is recorded with their donor record
Sponsors
- Sponsor levels with their benefits and how many of each you offer
- Track what each sponsor committed and what has been paid
- Sponsor logos on your event page
The online auction
- Bidders register and bid from their own phones; pages show bidder numbers, never names
- Automatic maximum bids, Buy it now and a soft close that extends an item when a bid comes in at the end
- Outbid alerts by email
- No fee on bids
The store
- Sell shirts, tickets to side events and other items from your own store page
- No platform fee on sales
Team Fundraising
- Supporters sign up, start their own page and form teams with a captain
- A leaderboard, a countdown and a list of recent gifts
- A fundraising thermometer you can place on your own website
The books and the thank-yous
- Ticket and campaign income is accounted for in Financial Management
- Every guest, bidder and donor is one record in Donor Management, ready for the thank-you letter
📅 How a gala comes together
Set up the event
Name it, add ticket types and table packages, and copy anything you can from last year.
Sign up sponsors
Offer your sponsor levels and track each commitment as it comes in.
Sell and seat
Share the event page, send invitations, then seat guests and print place cards and badges.
Open the auction
Add items with photos, open bidding before the night and close items in groups.
Run the night
Check guests in, sell at the door and watch the thermometer climb.
Say thank you
Every guest, bidder, sponsor and donor is already in your records, ready for thank-you letters.
🧮 What would fees cost you?
Many event and fundraising platforms take a percentage of every ticket, bid and gift, or ask your supporters to tip the software company at checkout. Put in your own numbers.
The calculator also has its own page at https://www.allinonenonprofit.com/fee-calculator/, so you can share it with your board.
👀 See it for yourself
Open the free live demo, no sign-in needed. The Fundraising & Development demo is already filled with a sample organization. Open Team Fundraising from the sidebar to see a campaign with its teams, leaderboard and thermometer. Nothing you do there is saved to a real account. To see tickets, seating and the auction on a sample gala, book a 45-minute walkthrough at https://app.allinonenonprofit.com/book.